Prep Football

First off, an admission: that screw up on the baseball page on Thursday? That was my fault. Never mistake examples for the real thing is the lesson we learned.

Anyways, I figure since we’re a week into the new high school football season I’ll start a weekly feature where I give you my two-cents and you throw nickels at my head. The main thing I’ll be watching for this week is how county teams bounce back from bad losses. With the exception of Nease, who simply played a better opponent, I doubt the rest of the county teams feel like they played up to their abilities.

Ponte Vedra and Cole Mazza simply aren’t the type of offensive group to not score a touchdown. Creekside lost some good athletes over the summer, but not so much that it merited the swing from last year’s game against Ridgeview.

Even Levent Sands —who tore it up in our fantasy league this week, by the way — didn’t have as stellar a performance on the ground as he’s become accustomed to.

All that will mean absolutely zero if the week of practice and game tape evaluation can be used properly. It also means zero because it’s coming from my mouth, but I’m the one typing this so I have a little bit of authority if only by my bluster.

What do you guys think? Go ahead and share your first week thoughts and second week predictions below, and I’ll see you all Friday night.